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By David Spiegelhalter THE British players in the unfolding swine-flu drama are providing a riveting case study of different responses to risk. While the government tries to look cool, controlled and consistent, tabloid newspapers hunt sensation and citizens exhibit every emotion from nervous anxiety to stoical acceptance. In the meantime, mainland Europe revels in portraying the UK as a land gripped by pestilence. Perhaps we all need a crash course in considering the unintended consequences of overreacting to events. Take a couple of memorable overreactions. In the year after the terrorist attacks on the US on 11 September 2001,